The government has announced several incentives for digital payments to catalyse the march to a cashless economy but the statistics says otherwiseET Bureau | November 24, 2016, 10:13 IST

While the demonetisation drive has been taken to flush out black money from the domestic economy, the long and often frustrating wait outside banks and ATMs point to another overlooked fact: the severe underpenetration of digital payment modes, including ATMs.

Even as the government has announced several incentives for digital payments to catalyse the march to a cashless economy, the statistics below point to the extent of the chasm there is between supply of digital alternatives and the demand for them.